Temple Bar, Volume 39George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates Ward and Lock, 1873 - English periodicals |
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... doubt if the whole population of Cliffegate is five hundred souls , man and boy . We have a few genteel families living around , but they are mostly poor . " " Then there is no society ? " " Lor , no , sir ! " she replied with a smile ...
... doubt if the whole population of Cliffegate is five hundred souls , man and boy . We have a few genteel families living around , but they are mostly poor . " " Then there is no society ? " " Lor , no , sir ! " she replied with a smile ...
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... doubt , " I answered laughing ; " but don't fear that I shall overstretch my mind . " And here the conversation ended . I had proposed to set to work so soon as I should have become familar with the new existence I had entered on ...
... doubt , " I answered laughing ; " but don't fear that I shall overstretch my mind . " And here the conversation ended . I had proposed to set to work so soon as I should have become familar with the new existence I had entered on ...
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... doubt that you will find me equal to the discharge of any duties it may be your pleasure to impose . I am a poor man ; and though I could earn a competence by teaching at schools and colleges , yet the situation you offer is the one ...
... doubt that you will find me equal to the discharge of any duties it may be your pleasure to impose . I am a poor man ; and though I could earn a competence by teaching at schools and colleges , yet the situation you offer is the one ...
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... doubt me still , Mrs. Williams ? " " I should be sorry to have taken the liberty to doubt you before , sir . I am sure you believe in what you say you saw . " " You still think that I was dreaming ? " 66 Indeed , sir , I don't think at ...
... doubt me still , Mrs. Williams ? " " I should be sorry to have taken the liberty to doubt you before , sir . I am sure you believe in what you say you saw . " " You still think that I was dreaming ? " 66 Indeed , sir , I don't think at ...
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... doubt , though he was cautious not to suggest , that he thought me a very odd , fanciful , even half - crazy being . A downright practical intrigue , a transparent love - affair , he could very readily have understood ; but a passion ...
... doubt , though he was cautious not to suggest , that he thought me a very odd , fanciful , even half - crazy being . A downright practical intrigue , a transparent love - affair , he could very readily have understood ; but a passion ...
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Page 468 - For contemplation he and valour formed, For softness she and sweet attractive grace ; He for God only, she for God in him...
Page 204 - Excellent wretch ! Perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee ! and when I love thee not Chaos is come again.
Page 213 - Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night. Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny What I have...
Page 245 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Page 204 - The current that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage ; But when his fair course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with the enamell'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage ; And so by many winding nooks he strays, With willing sport, to the wild ocean.
Page 205 - And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shot and danger of desire. The chariest maid is prodigal enough, If she unmask her beauty to the moon : Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes : The canker galls the infants of the spring, Too oft before their buttons be disclosed ; And in the morn and liquid dew of youth Contagious blastments are most imminent.
Page 213 - Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba That he should weep for her? What would he do Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have? He would drown the stage with tears, And cleave the general ear with horrid speech, Make mad the guilty and appal the free, Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears.
Page 54 - O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.
Page 214 - My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
Page 212 - Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood ; Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it...